vanity, thy name is ferrousoxide - 1370°C

Apr. 25th, 2005

i've been sick of my all-too-normal hair colour for awhile now. close to 2 weeks ago, i bleached the heck out of it and dyed it purple with some stuff here called Crazy Colours, which is like Manic Panic/Special Effects/etc. it came out a lovely mix of purple and blue, but it's already washed out to a strange aqua colour. i don't know if this is because i didn't bleach quite as much as i should have (roots and shorter bits of my hair went nearly white, but the longer bits were sort of a pinkish-red, and yes, i have photos of this), or if pretty coloured hair dye in Ireland is just inferior.

i'll be heading to Edinburgh on Friday for the Dark City Festival, and don't want to look quite like my head is a swimming pool, so i will be redying it again this week. _wirehead_ brought me some Raw forrest green hair dye (a gift from elvendude), which i haven't used yet, not because i'm opposed to dark green hair, but because everything i own that isn't black tends to be maroon, and i'm a bit afraid of looking like an xmas tree. i've also got a lead or two from solo_beckett and ickle_tayto on better brands of dye to use.

so now, in my debut poll, i'm asking for your advice. the poll is check-boxes so that you can indicate that you think multiple colours would be cool, or that you can't decide between a few colours. if you pick more than one, comment below and tell me which you mean (NB: i will not dye my hair more than 2 colours, so give up those visions you have of me with rainbow raver hair now).

Comments:

get Directions hair dye.. it's the best stuff for strange colours.. but it doesn't last long.. I think I only ever managed to get a month out of mine when I had purple hair. but then again I never bleached my hair first.

well, it's already been bleached once. so it *will* be actually green. i have always had visions of doing a green/blue thing like Lum from Urusei Yatsura, and i could just temporarily shelve my maroon wardrobe bits, there aren't *that* many.

how long did you leave the dye in for? I know when I do mine I'll actually keep it in as long as I can stand. I usually put it in in the afternoon then go to bed with it on and then shower in the morning. I tend to find that helps keep the dye. (my hair to doesn't hold dye well even after the bleach)

well, i did what i always do. bleach, wash out the bleach with the most hair-drying-out shampoo i have, let my hair dry completely, put on the dye and leave it until my hair is bone dry with the dye still in it, rinse it out (no shampoo), condition it, rinse and condition again the next day and then finally actually wash it the following day. usually works. i think the dye just sucks.

I *love* the idea of green & blue. There's this model I'm forever running across (though of course I can't remember her name now!) with the most beautiful blend of green and blue. She looks like a mermaid or something.

I know you said not more than 2,

but when I used to dye my hair, my favorite was when I used the last smearings of green, blue, and violet manic panic that I had left over from said monochromatic colors. Do you remember? I had peacock hair! I think you should go for peacock hair. I'd say peahen hair to be gender appropriate, but they just don't have the same tail feathers as peacocks. Maybe, mostly green and blue, with just a little violet. :)